I forgot to add another way to check it is to use the -c flag and 
a file containing the md5sum you are supposed to check against.
Here is a quick little example:

snits@newton:/home/snits/proj/c=>ls
hanoi*  hanoi.c
snits@newton:/home/snits/proj/c=>md5sum hanoi > hanoi.md5
snits@newton:/home/snits/proj/c=>md5sum -c hanoi.md5
hanoi: OK
snits@newton:/home/snits/proj/c=>rm -f hanoi
snits@newton:/home/snits/proj/c=>gcc -O3 -o hanoi hanoi.c
snits@newton:/home/snits/proj/c=>md5sum -c hanoi.md5
hanoi: FAILED
md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 computed checksum did NOT match
snits@newton:/home/snits/proj/c=>cat hanoi.md5
359935d45f69fcb2fd0afd882211062b  hanoi


On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 17:59 -0800, bmike101@cox.net wrote:
> Well, I downloaded a simply mepis ISO and burned it  and   
> it runs grub (I believe?) and then tells me that it found  
> simplymepis then  it says :  
> 	hds: tray open  
> 	end_request: I/O error on device......  
> then it also says:  
> 	cloop=error -5 uncompressing block <block numbers>  
>   
> Does this sound like a burn error or a corrupt down load? 
> I would check the download but I do not know how to do the 
> MD5 thing. Would someone care to inform me how to use it?? 
> 
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